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AUTOMATlGALLY D'ISINFECTING WATER CLOSETS, URINALS, (1w. No. 311,192. 1 4Patented Jan. 27, 1885.

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WILLIAM J. LONGLEY, OF MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK, AND CHARLES ELKIN, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

AUTOMATICALLY DISINFECTING WATER-CLOSETS, URINALS, dc.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,192, dated January 27, 1885.

Application filed November 20, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Beit known that we, 'VILLIAM J. LONG- LEY, of Mount Vernon, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, and CHARLES ELKIN, of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have made an invention of a Method of Automatically Disinfecting WaterClosets,Urinals, Drain-Pipes, Sewers,A and Analogous Receptacles; and we 1o do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description and specification ofthe same, reference being made therein to the accompanying drawings.

To facilitate the proper understanding of I 5 our invention, we will proceed to describe it as applied to an ordinary water-closet, into which water is caused to ilow by mechanism actua'ted by a vertically-reciprocating rod, one end of which rod is attached to a handle level with 2o the seat of the water-closet, though our invention can be adapted to any mechanism provided to cause a flow of water for the purposes of cleansing, or may be used without being connected with such mechanism. 2 5 Figure l is a sectional view of a reservoir, pipe, and valve embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section, on a larger scale, of the valve and chamber which govern the iiow of the disinfecting-lluid. Fig. 3 is a 3o similar View, the valve being in a position to connect the chamber with the reservoir. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a water-closet having our invention applied thereto.

A in Fig-1 is a reservoir. From the bottom 3 5 of this reservoir A runs a supply-pipe, B, into the box H. The cock O is a circular cock, having an oscillating motion and revolving in the box H. To this cock C, at its axis, is attached one end of the lever I, the other end 4o of said lever being connected, if desired, with the vertically-reciprocating rod of the watercloset. This cock C is also provided with a receptacle, D, cut or hollowed out from its periphery toward the center.

E is a pipe running from the box H to the water-closet pan or basin. The box H has at its top a chamber, h, into which a piston is inserted to be actuated by a connecting-rod from the lever I or otherwise. The reser- Voir A is lled with disinfecting-iluid, which iiuid is free to run into and along the supplypipe B. Then the vertically-reciprocating rod of the water-closet is down at its lowest point, the edge c of the cock C stops the flow ofthe fluid from the supply-pipe B. As the said rod is raised, the cock O, being controlled by the lever I, is caused to revolve backward until the receptacle D is open over the end of the supplypipe B and over the chamber 7L, permitting the iluid to dow in and fill up the 6o said receptacle D, and also the said chamber h. Vhen the water-closet rod commences its downward stroke, the cock C is caused to revolve forward, in which operation the edge c of the cock C again passes over the end of the supply-pipe B, stopping the flow therefrom, and the duid already in the receptacle D and in the chamber It is blocked up and cannot escape until the receptacle D has opened over the mouth of the pipe E. W'hen the rod of 7o the water-closet has reached again its lowest point, a free passage is afforded to the iluid held in the receptacle D and in the chamber 7i into the pipe E, by which pipe the said duid is conveyed into the water-closet pan or basin, and into the water which has been blocked up in the said pan or basin by the water-closet trap or otherwise. lt will be seen that should the water-closet rod in its downward movement be stopped and held stationary at half- 8c way the iluid held in the receptacle D and in the chamber his blocked up and cannot escape. It will also be seen that the duid so held in the receptacle D and in the chamber 7i cannot reach the water-closet pan or basin before the watencloset trap has closed and has blocked up a certain amount of water in the said pan or basin. When the water-closet rod is again raised, the diluted fluid blocked up by the water-closet trap is allowed to pass into the 9o water-closet pipe, from whence it llows into the drain-pipes and sewer, and our device commences another operation. It is thus shown that by our invention a system of disinfecting not only the water-closet pan or basin, or whatever other receptacle the fluid is caused to flow into, but also the drainpipes and ultimately the sewers, is effected.

The piston which we insert into the chamber h of the box H can be used either to create roo a suction by receiving a reciprocating motion I from a connecting-rod attached to the lever I or otherwise, or it can be used merely to regulate the quantity of fluid to be blocked up, and be actuated by a thumb-screw or other- Wise.

In regulating the quantity of the duid to be discharged at each operation the piston may be raised positively a predetermined distance; or the pressure of the iuid in the reservoir A may be permitted to raise it. In the latter case an adjustable stop of any desired construction may be provided, by which the rise of the piston may be terminated at such point, determined by the adjustment of the stop, as to furnish the desired quantity of the duid. It is obvious that the capacity of the box may be regulated in other ways than by a piston, as shown, as by making said box in sections telescoping upon one another.

The devices for governing the flow of the disiiiiecting-iliiid may be so connected with the ordinary handle of the closet as to be operated thereby, as shown in Fig. 4; butit will be readily understood that the valve C may be operated by hand independently of said closet-handle.

Ve claim as our invention- 1. The herein described disinfecting device, consisting of the combination, with a water-closet basin or analogous receptacle, of a reservoir, a pipe connecting the reservoir and basin, and a movable valve having a chamber communicating with said pipe, and adapted to hold a portion of the contents of said reser- Voir and to be placed in communication alternately With the reservoir and basin, substantially as set forth.

2. An automatic disinfecting device comprising a storage-reservoir, supply-pipe, and stop and carriage cock, box, and box-chamber, adapted to act in connection with mechanism provided to produce a iiow ofwater for thepurposes of cleansing, substantially as described.

3. lhe herein-described disinfecting device, consisting ofthe combination, with a Water-closet basin or analogous receptacle, of a reservoir, a pipe connecting the reservoir and basin, a box having a chamber communicating With said pipe, and a valve adapted to place said box in communication alternately with the reservoir and with the basin, substantially as set forth.

4. The herein described disinfecting de- Vice, consisting of the combination, with avvater-closet basin or analogous receptacle, of a reservoir, a pipe connecting the reservoir and basin, a box having a chamber communicating with said pipe, a valve adapted to place said box in communication alternately with the reservoir and with the basin, and means for regulating the capacity ol' said box, substantially as set forth.

5. rlhe herein described disinfecting device, consistingfof the combination, with a Watei-closet basin or analogous receptacle, of a reservoir, a pipe connecting the reservoir and basin, a box havinga chamber communicating with said pipe, and ayalve adapted to place said box in communication alternately with the reservoir and with the basin, said box being provided with a piston, substantially as set forth.

6. The herein described disinfecting device, consisting of the combination, with a Water-closet basin or analogous receptacle, of a reservoir, a pipe connecting the reservoir and basin, a box having a chamber communicating With said pipe, a valve adapted to place said box in communication alternately with the reservoir and with the basin, a piston in said box, and devices for connecting said piston with the operating-handle of the valve, substantially as set forth. l

XVILLIAM J. LONGLEY. CHAS. ELKIN. Vitnesses:

AUGUST E. KELLER, JOHN T. KENNEDY. 

